My gilt-edged cuttings book
Should diamond jubilees exist in journalism, I would be celebrating one around now.
It’s 60 years since I first saw my byline in print. It was a pretentious film review in a university newspaper. But from then on, Fleet Street was my calling, and I’ve kept a cutting of everything I ever wrote.
Many were interviews with the famous. Muhammad Ali told me he hoped his children would become ‘doctors, lawyers, scientists or engineers. For me, boxing was the best thing I could have done. It was the only way I could get rich. If I could, I’d have been a great doctor’.
When I interviewed Bob Dylan in 1969, he was more interested? Who was in the band?’
